TRM 431.01 INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS "LABOR RIGHTS PRESENTATION"

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LABOR RIGHTS

Nee Roman

Yasemin Aksoy

Ramazan Oval

Zeynep Karsavuran



OUTLINE

� Definition of Labor Rights & Brief History of

Labor Rights

� IGOs & NGOs� Labor Rights Around the World in Tourism

� Labor Rights in Turkey in Tourism



LABOR RIGHTS

� Labor rights or workers' rights are a group of legal

rights and claimed human rights having to do

with labor relations between workers and their

employers, usually obtained under labor andemployment law.



HISTORY OF LABOR RIGHTS

� Middle Ages Peasants Revolt in England

� In England 1833 Law passed about child workers

� KarlMarx A society ruled by the workers

� May 1, 1946, US 200 thousand workers stopworking

� 1919 International Labor Organization as part of

League of Nations, then incorporated in UN� United Nations Declaration of Human Rights

± Article 23 Right to work, to free choice of employment

± Article 24 Right to rest, leisure





International Govermental

Organizations &Non- Govermental Organizations



INTERNATIONAL LABOR ORGANIZATION (ILO)

� ILO was created in 1919

� It has a unique structure.

� It has 183 country members including Turkey.

� ILO¶s four strategic objectives:

1. Promote and realize standards and fundamental principles and rights at work

2. Create greater opportunities for women and men to secure decent employment and income3. Enhance the coverage and effectiveness of social protection for all

4. Strengthen tripartism and social dialogue



INTERNATIONAL LABOR RIGHTS FORUM

(ILRF)

� ILFR is an nongovernmental organization.

� It is established in 1986.

� Examples of succesful projects: Cocoa Campaign, Fairness in Flower Campaign



LABOR RIGHTS IN TURKEY



INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS FOR

TOURISM WORKERS RIGHTS

� UNWTO

± Global Code Of Ethics For Tourism

ARTICLE 9

Rights of the workers and entrepreneurs in the tourism

Industry

� IUF - Uniting Food, Farm and Hotel WorkersWorld-Wide

� Tourism Concern (Fighting Exploitation inTourism)



MAJOR CONCERNS

� Instable employment-high turnover

� Working hours

� Low pay, absence of overtime payments

� Low promotion opportunities

� Low professional management of employees

� Gender discrimination

� Child labour



THE UNIONIZATION LEVEL IN TOURISM

� Globally at about 10%

� In North America, at 14%

� In Australia, at 18% for full time workers and

13.1% for part time workers

� In UK, at 4.2%



THE UNIONIZATION LEVEL IN TOURISM

- Reasons for low involvement

� Fragmented and heterogeneous nature of theindustry

� The domination of the industry by small and

medium sized organizations� Reluctance of the employees

� Subcontracting and internships which divideworkers up into different segments

� The paternalistic management style

� Part time work, seasonality, labour turnover



Some Examples:

UNWTOs campaign against

child labour

� Sexual exploitation of children in tourism



Some Examples:

Hyatt Hotels seeks to lock workers intorecession� Recession through outsourcing, speedup, bargaining

concessions

� The union is fighting back with demonstrations,

boycotts, industrial action, including national strike

action, and coalition building.



LABOR RIGHTS IN TOURISM IN

TURKEY



THE UNIONS IN TURKEY

� OLEYIS(Turkey Hotels, Restaurants andEntertainment Places Workers Unions) workiing

with DISK

� TOLEYIS(Turkeys Hotels, Restaurants andEntertainment Workers Trade Union)

� HAVA- IS: The voice of civil aviation workers in

Turkey



Legal rights of the tourism workers:

�extra paymet for every overtime work

�good working conditions

� 9 working hours a day

�Unionization and the support for their rights

What are offered for them:�low wages

�No payment for any overtime work

�Unhealthy working conditions

�At least 10 working hours a day�Obstructions of unionization and firing theunionized ones



WORKERS CHOPPING IN THE

HOTELS STARTED

Hervo Clup Sirena Hotel, located in

Antalya Belek, had a contract with its

workers while recruiting that the workers

would work 12 months but at the end of

the season, 100 of 350 workers in the

hotel were set in front of the door justclaiming the seasonal issue without being

informed before . In addition, they could

not take their payments and any

compensation. They are now

unemployment and at this season it will

be hard for them to find a new job. Willwe continue to see the same finals,

injustice and exploitation in tourism?



Oleys Unon : 5 Star Hotels

in Blocking Unionization

OLEYIS announced that some 5 star

hotels are blocking unionization of

the labor and iy claims that thegovernment wants to reduce the fight

of the labor. It says that if you do not

want work, there are lots of people

who are ready to work for this

payment and so they are continuing

to exploit the labor force in tourism



Tourism workers protested

their boss in front of his

house.2009The workers of Queen ElizabethHotel, located in Göynük, Antalya,protested their boss due to the factthat they could not take theirpayment and compensation for 2months. One of the workers

explained their hard situation: We are all -150 workers- staying inthe dig and waiting for getting ourpayments. The electricity is switchedoff. The hotel is closed. We have nomoney to buy something to eat anddrink. The hotel gave us oaths but

now we are just waiting to get ourpayments that we deserve. No onecares us. We can not reach thebosses. The last remedy is to protestand to announce our situation andinevitability. We will be here waitingfor getting our rights.



CHILD LABOR IN TURKEYFrom a research in Ege University about child

workers:

According to ILO, for child labor the age limit is 15

with finishing compulsory education. Least 13-year-old

children can work in the soft works such as working inthe restaurants as waiters less than 14 hours in a week.

A survey from ILO about the child labor force in

Turkey on October, 1999:

78.8 % of 6-17 year-old children continues theireducation. The rest of them has to work to help their

family.



HOW CHILD LABOR RANGES

BETWEEN INDUSTRIES

Around the world

� 70.4% of the children works in

forestry, farming and fishery

industry

� 8.3% in industry/ trade

� 6.5% in service

� 3.8% in transportation

� 1.9% in construction and 0.8%

in mining

In Turkey

� 56.7% in agriculture

� 21.8% in industry

� 10.2% in trade

� 10.4% in service works



IN CONLUSION



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TRM 431.01 INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS "LABOR RIGHTS PRESENTATION"